Upgrading to RIPM with Full Text

Considering upgrading from Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (RIPM) to Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals with Full Text (RIPM with Full Text)?

RIPM with Full Text offers an expansive upgrade in quantity and extensive range of coverage for the study of music and musical life.

Discover the advantages of RIPM with Full Text, the only extensive collection available online for music periodicals dating from the musical Baroque to modernism. RIPM with Full Text encompasses the Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals plus new content being added every six months. RIPM with Full Text includes 354 rare primary source journals with full text and 418 music periodicals indexed cover-to-cover.

Expanded content coverage within RIPM with Full Text includes:

Unique titles

This full-text database is a unique collection of primary source periodicals for the study of music and musical life from 1700 to 1966. It provides a collection not found in any library, including complete runs of numerous periodicals pieced together from many different libraries. RIPM works with libraries and archives to digitize complete runs of journals. Users get access to every volume and issue, without gaps found elsewhere, and seamlessly integrated with other databases on the EBSCOhost platform.

300 years of musical history primary sources in a single, one-stop collection

Total records

1.15 million with linked full text

Full-text coverage

93% of RIPM Index records have linked full text

Unique complete runs online

470 journals indexed, 354 with full text

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